Recent content by MarkIV

I tried the reincarnation of the AP. What a piece of junk! TVI back then. Folded 5/8 yeah right. There is no such thing! Much better choices out there.

It’s a typo!

I just worked on one yesterday. New out of the box, plugged it in and it blew a 30 amp fuse. Turns it the wiring harness was wired incorrectly! 12 gage wire is separated in 3 sections for + & - . Someone at the factory put red tubing on the negative and black on the positive 12 gauge wire at the...

Buy the 2995 DX and disable the amp board.

This is why the base unit has a 5 digit frequency counter. To cover up the the instability. This radio never should have been designed with a 8 band selector. Look at the mobile version. It has a 6 digit frequency counter! But it’s not a 8 bander. It’s obvious as to why they did this. If you add...

Tuning chart.

27.2Mhz is where it is resonate at untrimmed. TYPO BY Sirio. Should have read 26.3 to 28.1 Mhz Resonate at 27.2 Mhz. There’s a chart showing how to trim it for frequency range. They also posted the wrong length. I personally had the 5/8 wave version up for 8 years. No issues until it got hit. I...

No it’s not. The comment I responded to was clearly before the specs were published.

That’s not what the specs show at all.

No it’s a Korean made radio. Not sure if the manufacturer.

I work in a studio. With microphones that cost thousands of dollars and very high end equipment. The Silmic II caps are nothing more than snake oil. Put in a high quality Nichicon cap and there is absolutely no difference in sound quality. As for the tantalum caps you are subbing a non polar cap...

FQP13N10 do not work properly in a KL203. And the input match will be way off. 2.8. Not to mention the loss off power versus the original part. A lot of speculation as to what the part is. And some suggestions are ridiculous.

This is a old post but completely wrong. If you tested a RM3 you would know that it is a mosfet it is not NPN transistor!

The ALC over clips even when turned up average talk power is low. In a whistle or tone it is acceptable. This is the same problem Icoms have had. Hopefully someone will come up with a fix.

Ancient post and incorrect. The D201A’s power supply was of a different design with the same output. It did not need to have as big. 2nd, the 6DG6 while not as robust as the 6l6 forvthe final actually gives more peak audio output and always sounds better when used as the final in this radio.